@jk cursed things, there are a few around at my work in random corridors, usually tuned to "this is heart" type radio stations (if I find them and they have MF band I retune them to Radio Caroline 😆 ).

They are not very good sound quality wise and many don't even hold the frequency on the radio (even compared to 1970s/1980s radiocassettes)

@bhtooefr i remember these really clearly but the ones i saw always had opaque regular plastic (usually grey or black or something?) so maybe this was a later model hastily altered to match the design fashion??

@jk Yeah, I'm certain of that - most of the references to this model family I can find are solid black, solid white, or solid silver, with the odd pink one.

This was totally a quick "let's use transparent colored plastics and make it look like an iMac" job on a design that I'd guess dates back to the early 90s... but then so much stuff in the early 00s was just "let's make 90s crap look like an iMac".

@jk My family was in Asheville, North Carolina for the North Carolina Mountain State Fair (we were exhibiting dairy goats there), we brought this thing with us so that we would be able to get news and also just unwind (nowadays, of course, you'd just use a smartphone), and we had it on during morning milking (the fair wasn't going to open for a few hours).

on that day I remember listening to BBC World Service on a Sony SW100 shortwave radio (also from late 90s, still have it somewhere but it needs new ribbon cable inside), as my (then very new) DOCSIS broadband Internet suddenly started acting up.

My enduring memory of this is the BBC reporter interviewing someone from US Embassy(?) and the first thing mentioned was the "potential dollar cost" of the incident (even before suspected casuality figures etc)

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